Anthropology
The study that focuses on the biological and cultural aspects of humans.
What is Anthropology?
The study of the human mind that focuses on individual behaviour.
What is Psychology?
What is the study of society and its influence on group and individual behaviour.
What is Sociology?
What was Ivan Pavlov known for? Provide a brief explanation.
What is classical conditioning?
- An unconscious learning process where a neutral signal is paired with a natural reflex to a create a learned, automatic response.
What are shared symbols, values, beliefs, and behaviours of a particular society.
What is culture?
This school of thought believe that psychologists can predict, control, or modify human behaviours by identifying the factors that motivate them in the first place.
What is behaviourism?
List and explain 2 of the 5 ways we can analyze a society.
Status - position in an institution
Hierarchy - a ranking of authority and power
Norms - specific rules that outline what is considered to be standard behaviour for a role
Values - beliefs of a group that provide standards for members' behaviour
Rules - developed by cultures based on their system of values
What type of learning occurs when behaviour is shaped by rewards and consequences?
What is operant conditioning?
This school of thought states that cultures develop complex rules that are logical structures, based on binary opposites.
What is Structuralism?
What's the difference between the conscious and unconscious mind?
The conscious mind is the part we are aware of.
The unconscious mind is the part we are unaware of. Contains the Id, Superego, and Ego.
This school of thought believed that economic power is the key to understanding societies.
What is Neo-Marxism?
What is the Bobo doll experiment? Who is known for this experiment?
The experiment that demonstrated observational learning using aggressive behaviour in children.
Alfred Bandura.
Name other two major schools of thoughts and their central approaches.
Functionalism -
To understand a culture, functions of social institutions must be understood. These provide a form of stability for the entire system.
Cultural Materialism
To understand a culture you must examine material, economic, and environmental conditions.
Name the other two major schools thoughts and their central approaches
Psychoanalytic Theory - Early childhood memories and our unconscious mind have a powerful influence on the way we function.
Learning Theory - By controlling the ways humans learn, we can influence both behaviour and personality.
List 3 of the 5 schools of thoughts.
Structural-Functionalism
Neo-Marxism
Symbolic Interactionism
Feminist Theory
Inclusionism
What are the 5 key research methods social scientists will use?
Surveys
Interviews
Participant observation
Experiments
Case studies